Series A Rounds H1 2014: Fewer Deals, Comparable Money

The money raised in Series A financings for biopharma, medtech, and diagnostics start-ups is down 8% from the same period last year, but the number of deals is down even more dramatically.

Series A financings for biopharma, medtech, and diagnostics start-ups totaled $627.5 million in the first half of 2014. That’s 8% less than the same period last year, when the half-year figure stood at $684.7 million, en route to a year-end total of $1.4 billion. The number of Series A rounds was down more dramatically: just 34 Series A rounds closed in H1 2014 compared with 53 deals in H1 2013.

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